Brooke Zeiger
Born January 9, 1996 Brooke Zeiger is an NCAA All-American and former U.S. Junior National Team member. Originally from Cumberland, Rhode Island Zeiger was a top-40 recruit in her 2014 recruiting class choosing to swim for the University of Minnesota with big sister, Blake. The Blue Chip recruit is primarily a backstroke and IM swimmer, but has the ability to swim distance freestyle at any level.
Junior National Team
Zeiger was a homeschooled student, and graduated in 2014. She was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team from 2012-2015, and even represented the USA at the World Cup in Beijing.
University of Minnesota
2014-2015
As a freshman Zeiger joined sister, Blake, for her first year at Minnesota. At the Big Ten Championships Zeiger broke the Minnesota School Record in the 400-yard IM, taking home the conference title. She also competed in the distance free events, finishing 9th in the 500-yard free and taking home bronze in the mile.
Zeiger qualified for the NCAA Championships, and on day one finished 48th in the 500-yard free. She returned back for day two, and advanced to the championship final of the 400-yard IM, where she dropped nearly a second from preliminaries and had a strong backstroke leg to …

The Michigan Wolverines are on top of the Big Ten through day 2 of the Women’s Championships, but Indiana’s Lilly King and Ohio State’s Liz Li may have something to say about that during today’s events.

Sophomore Clara Smiddy from Michigan looks to defend her 200 IM Big Ten title from last year, taking on the likes of IU freshman Lilly King and Wolverine teammate Siobhan Haughey in tonight’s finals. Smiddy snagged the #2 seed this morning.

Minnesota’s Brooke Zeiger and Penn State’s Casey Francis were named co-swimmers of the week by the Big Ten. Zeiger set a new school record in the 400 meter IM twice at the Arena Pro Swim Minneapolis before going on to break a school record in the 200 IM.

Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams earned Scholar All-American Team status by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) after maintaining team GPAs higher than 3.00.